Nature and Environment 2002

Nature and Environment 2002

Further information

Here are references with more about indicators and sustainable development

Ministry of Environment and Energy, 2001:
Nature and the Environment 2001 – Selected Indicators
http://www.sns.dk/publikat/netpub/ indikator2001eng/index.html

National Environmental Research Institute, 2001 Nature and the Environment 2001 – Impacts and Condition
NERI Technical report no. 385 (only available in Danish)
http://www.dmu.dk/1_Viden/2_Miljoe-tilstand/ 3_samfund/tilstandsrapport_2001/default.asp

The Danish Government, 2002
Denmark’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development
http://www.mst.dk/news/08030000.htm

Sustainability indicators in nearby countries

Nordic Council of Ministers (2002)
Sustainable Development, will we reach the goal? A Nordic set of indicators (not available in English)
http://www.norden.org/pub/miljo/miljo/sk/ ANP02_736.asp?lang=6

Finland:
Finnish Ministry of the Environment (2000)
Signs of Sustainability, Finland’s indicators for sustainable development 2000.
http://www.vyh.fi/eng/environ/sustdev/indicat/ inditaul.htm

Sweden:
Ministry of the Environment, Statistics Sweden, and Naturvårdsverket 2001
Sustainable Development Indicators for Sweden.
http://www.scb.se/statistik/mi1103/mi1103eng.asp

Norway:
Miljøstatus for Norge (not available in English)
http://www.miljostatus.no/

Great Britain:
National Indicators of Sustainable Development –homepage.
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/ indicators/national/index.htm

Selected indicators in the EU

The European Environment Agency 2002a:
Environmental Signals 2002: Environmental assessment report no. 9
http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_assessment_ report_2002_9/en/sig02LOW.pdf

The European Environment Agency 2002b:
TERM 2002. Indicators tracking transport and environment integration in the European Union
http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_issue_report_ 2002_24/en/

Selected indicators in the OECD

OECD 2002:
OECD Environmental Outlook 2001
http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/nouveau site ceese/ documents/ocde environment outlook.pdf

OECD 2001:
Towards Sustainable Consumption? Trends and policies in OECD countries
http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/cgi-bin/ OECDBookShop.storefront/2047808672/Product/ View/972001091P1

OECD 2002:
Indicators to measure decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth. SG/SD (2002)1

Sustainability Indicators in the UN

UN Commission for Sustainable Development (UNCSD):
Indicator sets by UN Commission for Sustainable Development (UN-CSD)
http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/isd.htm

Colophon

Nature & Environment 2002 – selected indicators

Report on sustainable production and consumption patterns

Ministry of the Environment 2003

Edited by
Helga Grønnegaard, Danish EPA
Bodil Harder, Danish EPA

Editing group
Niels Christensen, National Environmental Research Institute
Walter Brüsch, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Bruno Bilde Jørgensen, Danish Forest and Landscape Research Institute
Herdis Palsdottir Havnø, Danish Forest and Nature Agency

Graphic design and graphs
Lars Møller Nielsen, graphic designer
Photographs: Scanpix and Getty Images

Printed by: Schultz Grafisk
ISSN: 1398-3407
ISBN: 87-7972-718-2
Print run: 1000

Quotes only with the permission of the authors

This document is available free of charge from Danish libraries and:

Frontlinien
Ministry of the Environment
Strandgade 29
1401 Copenhagen K
Tel: (+45) 32 66 02 00
Email: frontlinien@frontlinien.dk